August 4, 2002

Five years ago, who would have thought that so many managers would have found so much time to sit behind keyboard and screen writing and reading so much email? The

Are you “gutsy, groovy grad looking for funky, full-on future?” If you are, Vodafone wants you on board and is busy branding its company with the express purpose of attracting

If there was World Cup for top business performers, it appears not too many Kiwi companies would be fit enough to compete. “When it comes to world ranking in performance

In the United States alone there are more than two trillion reasons why better corporate governance practices have suddenly leapt to executive top-of-mind awareness. The billions stolen, not to mention

Few New Zealand companies can build and manage e-business platforms without help from IT specialists. However, e-business/IT specialists need each other to deliver what the customers need. But how well is everyone getting along and are they all dancing to the same tune?

Add-on devices for handheld PCs may soon reach epidemic pro-portions, if current trends in the United States are anything to go by (and in the IT world they usually are).

One of the curious rituals of professional sports comes at the end of every season, when the trading begins. As players bounce back and forth like so many pinballs, the

Wrightson is a 160-year-old company forced by changes in farming and rural servicing to transform itself while retaining the loyalty of 80,000 clients. But the restructuring during the late ’90s, that both centralised and divisionalised the company, went seriously wrong. New CEO Dr Alan Freeth has repaired much of the damage with the combination of a ‘back to basics’ concern for customer needs and a vision that looks with confidence at a very different future.

It sounds like the branding exercise from hell. Take one century-old corporate monolith (trusty, reliable) cut into 33 pieces (of varied age and size), give each of those pieces unique

Who owns the under-30s vote? Nandor Tanczos, say the Greens. This icon of greenery is anti-establishment, modern, different and attractive. But will the Greens own these people when they get

The Healthy Organisation By: Brian Dive Publisher: Kogan Page Price: $88 Brian Dive is Kiwi who made it big on the international HR scene. He’s now looking to replant some

The Reserve Bank’s fourth consecutive lift in interest rates is deeply concerning to the export sector and points to the bank being “far removed from reality”, according to the president

There isn’t any credible research available that we know of – either locally or internationally – to establish direct link between management performance and the performance of the New Zealand

Back in May 1997, 14 economists, statisticians and representatives of groups regarded as users of inflation statistics were appointed to advise the Minister of Statistics, then Maurice Williamson, on revision

Digital media is replacing traditional tape-cassettes, and both dictation and transcription now happens anywhere and anytime. Digital dictation systems have come of age.

Catching top executives who destroy corporate wealth

If pulling off dinner with former US president Bill Clinton to help launch a new car was a major coup, what has it done for corporate hosting and events in New Zealand – set new precedents and given the industry a confidence boost, or created unrealistic expectations?

In the unlikely event Labour loses the election (race unrun as we go to press), then later this year Prime Minister Helen Clark, or her appointed minister, will sign New

Relatively few Western economy companies have lasted 100 years and lined up for another century’s trading. Minnesota-based diversified technology company 3M has. What distinguishes 3M’s corporate longevity? Why should James Collins and Jerry Porras, authors of business classic Built to Last, say that if they were asked to bet their lives on the continued success and adaptability of any single company over the next 50-100 years, they bet on 3M?